Re: 3.5" Boot disk for Apple IIc+

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:

>"Rich Beaudry" <r_beaudry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> I recently acquired an Apple IIc+, but it had no boot disks, or manuals.
>> Thankfully, it had an external 5.25" drive, and I can boot my old DOS 3.3
>> and ProDOS disks from that.  Unfortunately, they do not recognize the 3.5"
>> disk.  Does anyone know how to make, or where to get a boot disk for the
>> 3.5" internal drive?
>
>The 3.5" drives can only be formatted for Prodos.  Try using
>Copy II or the Prodos utilities program to format a 3.5" disk.

    You can also have bootable a 3.5 disk using Pascal or DOS 3.3. 
For the latter you'd need a utility like UniDOS (just one example) to
make use of the disk as two 400K volumes; standard DOS 3.3 only 
works with 5.25 disks for the most part.

    The IIc Plus should map the internal 3.5 drive to slot 5, drive 1,
where ProDOS utilities should find it and allow a format (DOS 3.3
will *not* see the drive, except in the case mentioned above). You
can use a 1.44MB High Density 3.5 floppy and format it as 800K
if you wish, just don't trust it for any important data.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca